Now here's an idea you don't see advertised in phones very often - Samsung's Ultra Touch comes loaded with a program that can pretend to call you to get you out of those awkward social moments.

The kicker? Among the proposed plans is a regular telephone service without line rental.

With few specs released, the Sony Vaio X series remains a tech mystery, as industry commentators struggle to decide if the ultra-thin, ultra light notebook is a winner

We take each week's best rumours from around the world and list them here in the Weekly Rumour Mill. This week, more companies trying netbooks, crazy takeover rumours, Apple cutting prices, and a PSP redesign.

Love or hate them, the Netbook is here to stay in 2009. We take a look at five new models: some are contenders and others are likely to be quickly forgotten.

NEC has developed an ultra curved 43" CRV43 TV in the US with all the whistles and bells you'd expect from a drool worthy TV specimen. But at that price, let's hope your drool is coated in gold.

We've got the official list of the new Panasonic line-up for 2009. It's a mixed bag of low energy LCD and plasma, some spiffy wireless units and a very pretty ultra thin model that will knock your TV-loving socks off

Is Panasonic's new CF-U1 really the toughest computer available? We take it to the Australian Outback for some punishment, including desert heat, rock drops, and H20.

An IIPA Special 301 Report advises that Spain should be added to the American government's watchlist for countries with dubious file sharing laws. Oddly enough, companies such as Mitsubishi are using the laws to create ingenious Bittorrent promotions.

The attractive HP Mini 2140 sports an Intel Atom chip, choice of HD or SSD drive options, Win XP, LED screen, massive keyboard and the much sought after 6 cell battery option. Is this the best netbook money can buy?

It's uber fast, and it's more storage than you'll find in most hard drive laptops. Make way for one of the biggest laptop upgrades you'll see for a while.

Loaded up your laptop with high-def movies? Sony's new projector with twin-HDMI inputs feels the love for both laptops and Blu-Ray boxes.

What's sure to become a must-have in portable drives, the Western Digital 1TB Blue Scorpio drive has just become our next most wanted piece of computer hardware.

Sony launched a host of new products today, including new Sony camera, TV and notebook models. Most surprising of all are the crocodile skin CS series notebooks

The Sony Walkman X series MP3 player features a 3" OLED screen, perfect for multiple viewing angles and sharp, crisp video display and state of the art digital noise cancelling earbuds.

A Microsoft Surface prototype was unveiled today at the Microsoft REMIX event in Sydney, demonstrating a new way of interacting with Lonely Planet travel titles. But Surface has even bigger plans in 'store'.

Philips have designed a haptic feedback jacket that synchronises with films to create a total sensory experience and give you the experience of actually being in the movie.

Dell have quadrupled their efforts and released a gaming machine that includes four hard drives, quad GPU and a Quad Intel processor. The price starts at $3,000, which makes us wonder if gamers are still better off going for a whitebox.

ASUS is considering 24 carat gold trimming for it's new Lamborghini notebook. We've seen a sample, and we're impressed.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is giving away a series of large cash prizes for the discovery of Mersenne prime number discoveries. A record breaking 12-million digit prime recently scored its finders a $100,000 cash prize.